Countries
China, Nepal
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Pakistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Pakistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
India
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
خوش آمديد
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
آپ کا شکریہ
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
گڈ نائٹ
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
سلام علیکم
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
گڈ مارننگ
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
براہ مہربانی
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
معاف کرنا
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
الوداع
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Dakhini
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
11,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Rekhta
  
Where They Speak
China
  
South Asia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
104.00 million
  
15
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
61.00 million
  
19
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
43.00 million
  
14
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
اُردُو
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Bihari
  
French Name
tibétain
  
ourdou
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Urdu
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 650
  
12th Century CE
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Urdu
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ur
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
urd
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
urd
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
urd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
urdu1245
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
59-AAF-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Tibetan and Urdu Speaking population
Tibetan and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Urdu on Tibetan vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Urdu Language Codes
Tibetan and Urdu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Urdu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.